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- From: ralf@reswi.en.open.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
- Date: 8 Nov 1992 09:29:08 GMT
- Organization: News Server fuer en.open.de
- Lines: 57
- Message-ID: <RALF.92Nov8102908@jodokus.en.open.de>
- References: <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- In-reply-to: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu's message of 7 Nov 92 17:20:31 GMT
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- >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Glenn <fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu> writes:
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- Michael> My second attempt at posting this. Dunno if this is old
- Michael> news, but...
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- Michael> After installing amstex and amslatex on my NeXT, I
- Michael> discovered several additional files that were not needed.
- Michael> Namely duplicate copies of files that could easily be
- Michael> replaced with symbolic links.
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- Michael> In /usr/lib/tex/formats:
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- Michael> splain.fmt == slitex.fmt (576k)
- Michael> lplain.fmt == latex.fmt (496k)
- Michael> plain.fmt == tex.fmt (288k)
-
- Michael> In /usr/bin:
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- Michael> latex == tex (184k)
- Michael> slitex == tex (184k)
- Michael> virtex == tex (184k)
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- Michael> /usr/bin/tex apparently looks at what command line
- Michael> command was used to execute it to determine which .fmt
- Michael> file is loaded in.
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- At least, this modification costs you around 3 blocks disk space. On
- my system TeX installed itself using links wasting no additional block
- of disk space. Have a look at the link count:
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- jodokus> ls -l *tex*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 81920 Jul 23 22:20 bibtex*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 188416 Jul 23 22:20 initex*
- -rwxr-xr-x 4 root 180224 Jul 23 22:20 latex*
- -rwxr-xr-x 4 root 180224 Jul 23 22:20 slitex*
- -rwxr-xr-x 4 root 180224 Jul 23 22:20 tex*
- -rwxr-xr-x 4 root 180224 Jul 23 22:20 virtex*
- jodokus>
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- Michael> I've removed latex, slitex, virtex, splain.fmt,
- Michael> lplain.fmt, and plain.fmt, and replaced them with
- Michael> symbolic links, a total savings of 1912k, almost 2 meg!
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- You should *NOT* remove the .fmt Files because they *are* different
- unless you really know what you need ....
-
- O.k. I removed slitex.fmt because i use this package *very* seldom...
-
- - ralf
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